Film to be shown Saturday in Overbrook focuses on memories of Kennedy assassination
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Nearly 60 years later, many people still recall where they were when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Carol Anno was in her third-grade classroom in Edwardsville Elementary School at Edwardsville in Wyandotte County.
Bob Von Stein was walking across campus at Emporia State University in Emporia, where he was a student.
Anno and Von Stein, who later spent 25 years as head football coach for Overbrook's Santa Fe Trail High School, are among Overbrook residents who appear in a new film created by the Overbrook Historical Society & Museum.
That documentary, "Overbrook Remembers JFK 60 Years Later," will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Community Room at the Overbrook Public Library, 317 Maple in Overbrook.
Admission will be free, but donations will be accepted.
Overbrook is a city of about 1,000 people in northeast Osage County.
The film highlights interviews conducted with Overbrook residents who describe the emotional impact triggered by Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination in Dallas.
Days of nationwide grief followed.
On Nov. 24, 1963, suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed.
A four-minute, 15-second trailer for the film can be found at Coming Soon: Overbrook Remembers JFK 60 Years Later.
Contact Tim Hrenchir at threnchir@gannett.com or 785-213-5934.
This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Overbrook residents recall death of JFK in film to be shown Saturday
